by Alicia | May 12, 2014 | About, News, Performance, selfiegeneration
Who cares about selfies? Me and you and a lot of smart folks in Tulsa. On Thursday, May 8, I had the pleasure of presenting my selfie lecture at the Philbrook Downtown. Discussing the relationship between selfies, the history of self-portraiture in photography and...
by Alicia | May 12, 2014 | Hyperallergic, News, Selfie Column, Writing
LOS ANGELES — I was on an airplane flying back from Tulsa when I happened upon the phenomenon of mile-high selfies. Wifi is available up high, so why not take a selfie? Flight attendants are filling the skies with hashtags like #crewlife and #airhostess. Somewhere in...
by Alicia | Apr 28, 2014 | Hyperallergic, News, Selfie Column, Writing
LOS ANGELES — The biggest selfie news of the past week comes from drones, which have spawned a new selfie category: the dronie. To shoot them, people program their drones to take short videos of themselves that operate like extended selfies. Most dronies begin with a...
by Alicia | Apr 16, 2014 | Online, Performance, Press, selfiegeneration
The good folks at Seattle’s Bumbershoot Arts & Culture Festival invited me to participate on the panel “Why Selfies? Why Introverts? Why Now?” at Town Hall. I had a grand time talking about selfies’ relationship to the history of...
by Alicia | Apr 14, 2014 | Hyperallergic, News, Selfie Column, Writing
LOS ANGELES — A selfie says a thousand words, especially when it’s taken with a longtime friend. We’ve all taken selfies to commemorate something together; it’s as if the moment doesn’t exist if we didn’t take that photo. Some selfie situations are more intense than...